February 2018

Normalizing Nukes, Pentagon-Style

If you’re having trouble sleeping thanks to, well, you know who... you’re not alone. But don’t despair. A breakthrough remedy has just gone on the market.  It has no chemically induced…

Assam And The NRC Update

Amid cacophonies of blowing horns and revving engines of lumbering trucks on the national highways 37 and 31 and the deafening whistles of diesel locomotives across the state, one could…

Songs of the Dead

Abandoned, forgotten passwords, we will be buried and burnt. Or replaced. Our laughter stripped of its sound bytes will freeze in frames. Our conversations will loiter in the marketplaces of…

Need For Clean Elections

  If the representative you vote for is on the basis of his or her financial strength, then do not worry. You deserve a corrupt government – a government which…

Nurdle Hurdle

  "Walt Disney never did justice to Chicken Little's hurdles." -- Richard Martin Oxman There's a NEW obstacle, a fresh difficulty you must face in your race to right the wrongs of society...…

Mary Wollstonecraft: A brief biographical note

              Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97), rightly credited as the first feminist philosopher, though the term feminism was not available in the discourse of that era, by the Enlightenment-inspired passion for…

 The Threads Of Gloom

India has been home to a variety of arts and crafts which have won it a coveted place in the cultural heritage of the world. Handloom is one of the…

Media On Trial

  Much is said, and rightly so, about the excesses of the press. Despite press codes and press laws  ,partisan journalism continues to rule with an untrammeled pen.  The press,…

For Madhu: In Memory

Headline: Adivasi Youth Beaten to death in Kerala - An adivasi youth Madhu (27) was beaten to death by settlers in the Adivasi heartland of Attapady, Kerala, for allegedly stealing…

Why BDS Movement Deserves A Nobel prize

When Norwegian lawmaker Bjørnar Moxnes nominated the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement for the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month, he called it an effort towards “stopping an ascendent, racist…

When A Woman Laughs

There are hundreds of ways to silence a woman stare her down if she happens to laugh out loud in public space especially in the presence of men where she…

Sad Sameness Source

  "All of humanity's problems stem from man's in ability to sit quietly in a room alone." -- Blaise Pascal "I feel monotony and death to be almost the same."…

If We Have To Survive

The children will sleep tomorrow Without the waves of the dead Women will laugh tomorrow Without bowing near the graves If we hold our hands For a new tomorrow If…

Refuting Nuclear Winter Denial

We are all familiar with the climate change denial of Donald Trump and the US Republican Party. Motivated by the greed of giant fossil fuel corporations, climate change denial contradicts…

Understanding The Right Wingers

  " Except in the desserts, at every place of human habitation, there is the left, the centre and the right. This will continue to be 10,000 years hence" Mao…

Urdu, What Did I Do?

A language, any language, is not simply sounds and script characters which represent thoughts. A language is the soul of the people. It is the vehicle which connects their past…

Himroo: A Dying Art

  A dignified aura of its rich past cloaks every corner of Aurangabad, a bustling city in Maharashtra. The crowning minarets that dot the city landscape and the villages around…

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